DailyDirt: Playing Tricks With The Mind

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The human brain is a pretty interesting contraption. And generally, we learn about how it works when things "go wrong" with it. The results of brain mapping are pretty fascinating -- especially when we find out that many humans have common brain areas that perform the same tasks. Armed with this information, we can try to trick ourselves and hack our own thoughts. But even if we can't quite figure out how our brains work, the odd cases of various brains gone awry are interesting to see. Here are just a few examples:

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Well these are certainly interesting to read while I am stuck at work on Christmas Eve.

I like the one about the women with really good memories. Reminds me of My daughter, at the age of 3, kept secret journal of he daily events and the weather. We discovered it when she was 5. She had recorded every day and since she could not write she drew the sun, clouds, rain, snow with happy faces, sad faces, etc. What I found remarkable is that she knew when the seasons should start to change as she commented that it snowed last year at this time and she was sad because of some event I had long forgotten. She still keeps a journal, she has a good memory, but no where near the lady in the article. Too good of a memory can be a bad thing when all you do is dwell on the past and never see the present or the future.